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National Association Announces 2010 Buyer MLS System
Effective January 15, 2010 Official “Buyer Search-MLS” Announced In an ever evolving quest to provide it’s members with innovative tools and systems, the National Association announced the nation wide roll out of their mandatory Buyer Search-Multiple Listing Service. The new system will provide buyers and buyers agents all the same protections, conveniences and broadcast benefits that property sellers and listing agents ...
You CAN Make a Difference
It Started Last Year In February 2008, I had the honor of chairing the Short Sale Working Group appointed by President Dick Gaylord. A group of REALTORS from all over the country, representing a number of standing committees met to address the issues created by the mounting number of short sales. I just got an email from one of the ...
New Conversations About Your MLS
The possibilities are endless The MLS Track at Inman Real Estate Connect left my mind spinning with the possibilities that are ahead for our industry and, more specifically, the MLS. I ended up with a few opinions and a bunch of questions to take back to my local Board for discussion. This is where this conversation rightly belongs, after all…with ...
How Stuff Works at NAR
NAR 2008 Day 2 Members Have Issues One of the common threads in blogs written by real estate sales people is a disconnection from the National Association of REALTORS. They feel that NAR is some faceless entity run by anonymous individuals who have some secret agenda that is disconnected from the lives of the working real estate professional. The truth ...
I Don’t Want To Start a Fight But..
It Seems So Simple When we become REALTORS, we’re supposed to subscribe to a Code of Ethics. Subscribe to as opposed to be restricted by . I always thought it was a good thing. Something to be proud of. A higher standard that we’re willing to be held to. There’s only 17 articles in the Code of Ethics. Only one ...
The Great Debate
photo source: Mike Hippie No, not those debates between donkeys and elephants in red and blue states. The great debate in the Phoenix real estate market, and likely in others, is whether our MLS – the Arizona Regional MLS – should have a public home search available. The Houston association has become the standard for such things and in time ...















Taking It To The
StreetsInformation Superhighway.They’re only words. Words. Words are powerful stuff. Words can hurt, elate, destroy, and effect change. They can be designed to do any of these things (and much more) or they can do it without intention. Words can be anything we want them to be. Being a blogger, I’ve become a bit more fond of words lately. I try to ...